Books - "history"
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Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne
Octavo, beige heavy boards, red lettering to spine, xvi + 240pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling to boards, v occasional marking in ink to margins)
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
KEYWORDS: literature Shakespeare literary criticism Donne history
Writing and European Thought 1600-1830
Super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 222pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Europe European history historical
Writing From History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature
Super octavo, mauve glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 309pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers & edges, light chafing, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history renaissance writing intellectual culture
English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 539pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism reformation history
Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance
Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 148pp, Near FINE (light bruising to boards) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history drama religion religious Christianity Shakespeare
Interpretation and Theology in Spenser
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 273pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature literary doctrine Christianity Edmund Spenser poetry history criticism
Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white & red lettering to spine, xxiv + 257pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light fading to front board, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Brill 2006
KEYWORDS: late middle ages renaissance history drama literature theatre theater England English criticism
The Meaning of Masonry: A Popular Guide to the Values of Ancient and Modern Freemasonry
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 188pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light foxing & staining to boards & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, masters lodge plate to front pastedown, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some sl loss, all corners lightly clipped, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Exposition Press 1960
KEYWORDS: first edition freemasons freemasonry masonic history guide values morals ethics secret societies
Horsemanship: A Bibliography of Printed Materials From the Sixteenth Century Through 1974
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xvii + 282pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1985
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies literature literary horsemanship horses history historical
The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & the Pursuit of Paganism
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & grey lettering to spine, xvi + 398pp, VG (light creasing & curling to cover edges with some moderate fading, moderate creasing & fading to spine, light soiling to page edges, moderate crack to gutter of pgs 246/247, occasional markings to margins in pencil)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1986
KEYWORDS: art history literary criticism literature classical classics Ovid metamorphosis philosophy
Te Rou; or, The Maori at Home
READING COPY ONLY, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration with black illus to spine, gilt & black illus/tooling to front board, blind stamp rule to rear board, frontispiece, viii + 343pp, v scruffy (heavy chipping to spine extrems, moderate scuffing to boards & extrems with some surface loss, moderate staining/tanning to rear board & spine, heavy tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's label & owner's name to eps, v heavy cracking to gutters throughout with attempts- and failures- at heavy tape repairs throughout, moderate tanning & foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle 1874
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aoteroa Maori culture social cultural history John White customs anthropology
Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 328pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl chafing to boards, occasional annotation & markings in pencil) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1992
KEYWORDS: theology church doctrine academic literature reformation Christianity 16th sixteenth century history authority
A History of Dentistry in New Zealand
Super octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 268pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, heavy but small water damage & moderate surface loss to top corner of boards & pages, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy loss & archival tape repairs to top corners, light creasing to edges, moderate chafing/soiling & scuffing to covers, light tanning to spine)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Dental Association 1980
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa dentistry history medical dentists dental
John the Baptist; a Contribution to Christian Evidences. The Congregational Union Lecture for 1874
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & black rule to spine, black lettering & rule to front board, xxxi + 548pp, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to spine & boards, heavy tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to pages throughout, moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1876
KEYWORDS: religion religious ancient history biblical bible John the Baptists Christianity
The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace
PENCIL ANNOTATION THROUGHOUT, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 470pp, VG (light scuffing & bruising to board edges & extrems, sl soiling to boards, moderate water staining to page edges- no wrinkling, afrementioned pencil annotation throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light to mdoerate fading to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2002
KEYWORDS: literature literary reformation history theology humanism grammar
A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance (Second Edition)
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, xxiii + 372pp, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl tanning & light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: St Martin's Press 1995
KEYWORDS: dictionary Shakespeare literature puns phrases literary history sex sexual language humour humor vocabulary
The Book of Beauty; or Regal Gallery 1848
DELIGHTFUL ORIGINAL BINDING, imperial octavo, teal textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt tooling to spine & front board, blind stamp decoration to rear board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus borders to prelim pages, 302pp, 12x black & white plates with tissue guards, VG (moderate bruising & chipping to extrems, moderate tanning to spine & board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, heavy cracking to some gutters, prev. owners' names to ffep, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate foxing to plates, all plates are present but some are loose, binder's sm label to rear pastedown, frontispiece tissue guard detached & creased but present, some minor foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: David Bogue 1848
KEYWORDS: women history beauty portraits royal wives Henry 8th eighth viii 3rd third iii first 1st i
The Jews in Spain and Portugal: A Bibliography
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to spine, xiv + 364pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to rear board, minimal library markings, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1975
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies Jews Jewish history anthropology Spain Portugal literature texts Garland reference library social science
Lucrecia's Dreams; Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Super octavo softcover (VG) single spot in black permanent marker to foot edge of text block; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1995
KEYWORDS: richard kagan lucrecia de leon spain prophets prophecies spanish inquisition history academic texts
The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 496pp, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, moderate foxing to eps and page edges) in d/w VG- (moderate foxing to covers, light chipping to spine extrems and flap corners, 3cm closed tear to upper spine hinge)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1955
KEYWORDS: William Shakespeare bibliography literature literary textual history